Month: April 2012

MADRID, 29 (EUROPA PRESS) Demand for effort that requires the forest firefighter is higher than expected and that the described so far, as it has noted the research group on assessment of the condition physics of the University of León, just published an article in the scientific journal ' Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health ' where this capacity of Member of the reinforcement brigades of forest fires (BRIF) analyzes the extinction of fires. A new job within the research project factors factors of performance of the personnel specialist in forest firefighting (PEEIF), has as main novelty have been conducted in actual fire conditions and not through simulation As explained to DiCYT Professor José Gerardo Villa Vicente, and collect scientific information SINC platform, “through the company Tragsa and workers that voluntarily, have wanted to participate in the study, have compiled information about forest fires.” “This way, have come to analyze about 200 subjects and some 15 fires for each”. For this study specialists conducted a stress test in the laboratory of the research group on assessment of the physical condition of the University of León. Over four years, the researchers and the University of León have controlled more than 2,000 forest fires has graded depending on the hour. “Where the fire could be voluntary forest officials took a capsule of temperature that recorded both its core temperature variations along...

London, 28 mar (EFE).-the families of workers who died by being exposed to asbestos from the past 40 years to 90 in the United Kingdom shall be entitled to claim compensation, today ruled the Supreme Court, the highest British court. Family members had begun five years ago a long legal process to demand compensation from the insurance companies. Many people who worked in heavy industry (mining and steel industry, among others) developed mesothelioma, cancer directly related to the inhalation of asbestos particles. According to the Supreme Court, the claim is considered automatic from the moment in which workers were exposed to asbestos and not when the symptoms of mesothelioma. were With the opinion today, insurance companies face a few millionaires payments to relatives, according to legal experts. Mesothelioma is a particularly aggressive cancer, affects the lungs and the membrane that covers the part of the chest and abdomen that surrounds the lungs and intestines. It may take up to forty years to occur, but once diagnosed, patients have a life expectancy of between nine and twelve months, because there is no cure, according to specialists. The carpenters, shipyard, metallurgical workers and electricians have been the most exposed....

Washington, 28 mar ( EFE).- A group of surgeons at the University of Maryland (USA) claims to have made the “most complete” face transplant of the story to a man who lived for 15 years with a mask after suffering an accident with a firearm that disfigured her face. The operation, which lasted 36 hours and was held on 19 and 20 March, included the transplantation of teeth, the jaw, part of the language and all facial tissue from the scalp to the base of the neck, have reported the University Medical Center surgeons. Patient is Richard Norris, a man of 37 years of Hillsville, Virginia,. Norris was 22 years old when an accident with a firearm left him with the sunken face and lips, nose and the front part of the tongue. For 15 years Norris led a surgical mask, he avoided eating in public and he lived “as a hermit”, according to doctors that operated it. According to surgeons, Norris has already begun to feel his face, brushing teeth and shave, and has also recovered the sense of smell, which had lost following the accident. The operation was the culmination of a decade of research funded by the Office of Naval Research of the Department of Defense, as part of an effort to expand the possibilities of facial reconstruction for wounded military. Norris was elected as a...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – many pharmacies Americans they would to the adolescents incorrect information when they communicate by phone to ask if they can get the pill the day after without a recipe. In most of the States of the country, any older woman 17 years you can access without a prescription for the pill that is used to prevent a pregnancy after having sex without protection. Is by a decision of the Administration 2009 of food and United States drugs (FDA for its acronym in English). But a new study suggests that some pharmacies not they always have the drug, also known as Plan available (B), or their employees would consider that only the older patients can buy it without a prescription. Then, the teenagers do not could access to emergency contraception. “this is a delicate matter and could be very sensitive to the “ teenager who is on the other side of the phone. “If no is provides the correct information or you do not want to specify how get the drug, the teenager would be expired”, said Dr. Tracey Wilkinson, lead author of the study and the Boston Medical Center pediatrician. Wilkinson research assistants called by phone to every five towns pharmacy posing by a teenager of 17 years or your physician interested in get the pill the day after. In total, the team made...

MADRID, 28 ( EUROPA PRESS) Services minimum in public health during the general strike on Thursday will be on a Sunday or public holiday in most of the communities autonomous, similar to the qualified for the last stop general, held in September 2010. A similar situation is expected in private healthcare. As general rule, to be considered a basic and essential, essential service care will remain as a normal day in units such as dialysis, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, transplants, UCI, resuscitation, coronary units or cleaning and emergency transport in areas of risk services. Also, in some communities, such as Andalusia, Extremadura, Murcia, the Canary Islands, Catalonia or Navarre, MRSA and hospital emergencies will also work as a normal day, while they will work as one Sunday in others, as in Valencia or Basque country. Also as a Sabbath or a holiday will work, in general lines, specialties and health centres and the rest of non-urgent hospital care and other services as kitchens, switchboards, cleaning or collected waste. In this case, the regional governments believe that health care is ensured. However, convening unions, UGT and CC.OO., they have challenged the minimum services established by the respective regional Governments in Balearic Islands, Castilla y León, Basque country, considering them “abusive and disproportionate”, while in Aragon pending agreement. Private health by what refers to private healthcare, the National Federation of private...